[uf-discuss] Re: Using object for datetimes (was: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought)

2008-06-28 Thread Ben Ward
On 28 Jun 2008, at 17:03, Ed Lucas wrote: George Brocklehurst wrote: Is it worth revisiting Tantek's original suggestion of using the object element to represent dates? [1] The idea was to do something like this: object data=20050125January 25/object This particular example is

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Using object for datetimes (was: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought)

2008-06-28 Thread Scott Reynen
On [Jun 28], at [ Jun 28] 11:09 , Ben Ward wrote: On 28 Jun 2008, at 17:03, Ed Lucas wrote: George Brocklehurst wrote: Is it worth revisiting Tantek's original suggestion of using the object element to represent dates? [1] The idea was to do something like this: object

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Using object for datetimes (was: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought)

2008-06-28 Thread George Brocklehurst
On 28 Jun 2008, at 18:09, Ben Ward wrote: I've pastied my test case, and would be grateful if people could test the behaviour in Internet Explorer: http://pastie.org/224023 IE 6, 7 and the beta version of IE 8 all visibly render the object element as a small box, similar to the way they

[uf-discuss] Re: Using object for datetimes (was: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought)

2008-06-28 Thread Toby A Inkster
Ben Ward wrote: On 28 Jun 2008, at 17:03, Ed Lucas wrote: object data=20050125January 25/object This particular example is invalid, as the data= attribute must contain a URI, and a URI cannot start with a number. It's perfectly valid. Absolute URIs can't start with a number, but